- First name: Wolfgang 
  
- Last name: Mederle 
  
- Email address: REMOVED
  
- Home page: http://www.mederle.de/ 
  
- Phone number(s): +49 179 2951185 
  
- Postal code: D-81677 
  
- City: München (Munich) 
  
- Country: Germany 
  
- Organization(s) you work for or study at 
Study: Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung (CIS) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität 
München (LMU) 
  
Work: Freelance Sysadmin and Course Instructor (Linux, FreeBSD, OS X, 
Windows etc.) 
  
- Fields of interest 
Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Search Engines, the 
Web in general 
  
- Have you written any Lisp-related papers? If so, please supply 
  bibliographical references (and URL's, if possible). 
A short introduction for freshmen is at http://www.mederle.de/gl/emacs/elisp.html 
  
- Have you developed or participated in the development of any 
  Lisp-related programs or libraries? If so, please supply a URL, 
  if possible. 
Wrote a couple of small tools, did a little GUI programming with 
cmucl and Garnet, all of it being works-for-me stuff. Currently, 
though, I'm writing my thesis which mostly consists of an application 
that can extract German postal addresses from web pages. It is a 
complete Common Lisp solution, including the web demo, which uses 
mod_lisp. And it's *fast*! 
  
- Lisp variants you have used (e.g. Common Lisp, Scheme, Dylan): 
Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp 
  
- Lisp variants you're currently using or intend to use in the 
  near future: 
Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, possibly Arc 
  
- Lisp implementations you have used 
  (e.g. CMUCL, Lispworks, Allegro Common Lisp): 
CMUCL, OpenMCL, SBCL, clisp, Lispworks 
  
- Lisp implementations you're currently using or intend to use 
  in the near future: 
CMUCL, OpenMCL, Lispworks 
  
- Computer platforms on which you're using or deploying Lisp: 
OS X, Linux/x86 
  
- Number of years of experience with Lisp: 
4 
  
- Do you use Lisp: 
  - at work (if so, how much) 
Yes, whenever a bash script won't do. 
  
  - for study (if so, how much) 
Whenever possible, which is often. 
  
  - as a hobby (if so, how much) 
Exclusively. 
  
- Are you using Lisp as much as you would like to? 
  If not, why not? 
I would love to do it for a living. 
  
- Do you see any obstacles to further Lisp growth (if so, what 
  is the biggest obstacle in your opinion)? 
Lisp has come a long way since I discovered it for me, notably 
ASDF and a couple of libraries help a lot (cl-ppcre, uffi, tbnl, 
etc.) 
The biggest obstacles are the non-existance in the press, FUD and 
prejudice. 
  
- Would you be interested in a Lisp-related job or contract work? 
Definitely. 
  
- Is your organization interested in hiring Lisp programmers? 
No. 
  
- Are you currently participating in Lisp-related meetings? 
  If so, where and how often? 
  If not, would you be interested in such meetings? 
Yes, if affordable. I need a new pair of jeans.